Podcast appearances and mentions of ed thomas

Episode 435 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Tom Rinaldi, a reporter on multiple Fox Sports properties including the NFL where he works on the top team. Rinaldi has a new serialized podcast series out: “Tom Rinaldi Presents: Sacred Acre.” The six-part series goes into the life and murder of Ed Thomas, a longtime high school football coach from Parkersburg, Iowa. In this podcast Rinaldi discusses why he was attracted to this story of a man who was killed 15 years ago; the challenges of narrative audio; the collaborative process for podcasts; Nick Saban becoming a college football analyst for ESPN; why broadcasting at a World Cup was a dream assignment; working with Tom Brady on the NFL; why he thinks Brady will be successful, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PODCAST: Tom Rinaldi, Award-winning reporter and journalist with Fox Sports joins Sports Business Radio for a conversation. Rinaldi is the winner of 17 national Sports Emmy Awards and 7 national Edward R. Murrow Awards in his distinguished career. Rinaldi serves as the lead reporter from FOX NFL's top game each week alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt, analyst Tom Brady and reporter Erin Andrews. He also appears on Fox Sports' college football coverage. He has a new podcast out: Tom Rinaldi Presents: Sacred Acre. Rinaldi delves into the inspiring legacy of Ed Thomas, the revered high school football coach from Parkersburg, Iowa. This 6-part series chronicles Thomas's journey from being the 2005 NFL High School Coach of the Year to his heroic efforts in rebuilding his community after a tornado. Tragically, Thomas's life was cut short when he was murdered by a former player. New episodes publish every Thursday on Apple and Spotify podcasts. LISTEN to Sports Business Radio on Apple podcasts or Spotify podcasts. Give Sports Business Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy our podcast. Click on the plus sign on our Apple Podcasts page and follow the Sports Business Radio podcast. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram, Threads and Tik Tok @SportsBusinessRadio. This week's edition of Sports Business Radio is presented by Matsing (www.matsing.com). Matsing's antennas are deployed in over 100 venues globally, including 50% of NFL venues, 35% of NBA and NHL arenas and several F1 race tracks. Venues such as AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys), Alegiant Stadium (home of the Las Vegas Raiders and Super Bowl LVIII) and Amalie Arena (home of the Tampa Bay Lightning) all have Matsing's innovative lens antennas. For more information on how Matsing can help your venue, visit www.matsing.com or email Tracy Salazar at Tracysalazar@matsing.com. Matsing is the Exclusive Antenna Partner of Sports Business Radio. #TomRinaldi #SportsMedia #FoxSports #NFL #Media #Podcast #MLB  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Rinaldi is back with Season 2 of Tom Rinaldi Presents: Sacred Acre as he delves into the inspiring legacy of Ed Thomas, the revered high school football coach from Parkersburg, Iowa. This 6-part series chronicles Thomas's journey from being the 2005 NFL High School Coach of the Year to his heroic efforts in rebuilding his community after an EF-5 tornado. Tragically, Thomas's life was cut short when he was murdered by a former player. Through powerful interviews, discover how his values of Faith, Family, Football, and Forgiveness continue to resonate in Parkersburg today. New episodes every Thursday. Follow & Subscribe to stay updated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June 2009, Ed Thomas, one of the country's most beloved and well-known high school football coaches, was brutally murdered in the small town of Parkersburg, Iowa. Surprisingly, the perpetrator was one of Ed's former players, Mark Becker. -- Connect with us! Instagram: @unnaturalthepodcast Facebook: Unnatural: A True Crime Podcast Email: unnaturalthepodcast@gmail.com

Stranger Things' Shawn Levy on collaborating with Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight on Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See; award winning actor Adrian Lester on the Birmingham Film AND TV market and his fears about AI; and Fiction Factory's Ed Thomas and S4C's Gwen Gravelle on new Welsh-language dark comedy drama Pren ar y Bryn/Tree on a Hill.

Ed Thomas and Cary Gahm are the co-founders and co-CEOs of TempMee, a technology marketplace that allows dental offices to contract directly with registered dental hygienists (RDH) and dental assistants to fill single day, short-term, or permanent positions.For more info, visit https://shrimptankpodcast.com/bocaraton/Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theshrimptankFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theshrimptank?lang=enCheck out Boca Raton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/shrimp-tank-boca-raton/

(Día de la Familia en EUA) El 26 de septiembre de 2006, más de quinientas comunidades junto con sus gobernadores estatales y el presidente de la república de los Estados Unidos de América celebraron, por primera vez, el Día de la Familia. La declaración del cuarto lunes de septiembre como tal resultó de una encuesta en curso, de ocho años de duración, de adolescentes que mostraban un reducido riesgo en cuanto al uso de alcohol, drogas y cigarrillo debido a que cenaban con su familia tres o más veces a la semana. Cada año esa encuesta del Centro Nacional de Adicción y Abuso de Estupefacientes de la Universidad Columbia, realizada entre los adolescentes de doce a diecisiete años de edad, había demostrado que los que cenaban regularmente con la familia eran menos propensos a fumar y a abusar del alcohol y de estupefacientes. Los adolescentes que comían en compañía de su familia tres veces o menos a la semana corrían más riesgo, mientras que los que comían con sus familiares entre cinco y siete veces a la semana recibían el beneficio máximo: alivio de los factores primordiales del estrés, el aburrimiento y las presiones académicas que provocan los estudios. Joseph Califano, director y fundador del centro, dice que los resultados justifican hacer hincapié en el tiempo de interacción familiar durante las cenas juntos. Por eso sostiene que esta campaña anual no es sólo una oportunidad para recalcar que la familia es algo bueno. «El Día de la Familia es una celebración, un símbolo, para lograr que los padres de familia reflexionen y recuerden lo importantes que son las cenas familiares... en la crianza del niño —explica Califano—.... Ahora tenemos datos científicos sustanciales que demuestran... que si se logra que un menor de edad llegue a cumplir los veintiún años sin fumar, sin consumir drogas ilícitas y sin abusar del alcohol... es casi seguro que no lo hará el resto de su vida.» Califano además recomienda con insistencia que las familias apaguen el televisor durante su tiempo juntos alrededor de la mesa.1 ¿Cómo es posible que haya llegado a ser necesario realizar semejante encuesta en la sociedad actual para lograr que los miembros de la familia se porten tal y como tradicionalmente se han portado en el transcurso de los siglos? ¡Qué decepción se llevarían nuestros abuelos si se descorriera el velo y vieran que en cuestión de una o dos generaciones permitimos que se secaran tantas de nuestras sanas raíces familiares! Tal vez esta triste realidad se deba en parte a que muchos de esos mismos antepasados nuestros dejaron de hacer algo de suma importancia, algo que debemos hacer todos a título personal, para asegurar el futuro de nuestra familia. Debemos abrirle a Jesucristo la puerta de nuestro corazón, y por ese conducto la puerta de nuestro hogar. «Mira que estoy a la puerta y llamo —dice Cristo—. Si alguno oye mi voz y abre la puerta, entraré, y cenaré con él, y él conmigo.»2 Abramos esa puerta de par en par, y pidámosle que ocupe el puesto que le corresponde a la cabecera de la mesa como nuestro invitado de honor cada vez que, como familia, nos sentemos a cenar. Carlos ReyUn Mensaje a la Concienciawww.conciencia.net 1 Ed Thomas, «Family Time Around the Table Good for Teens» (Tiempo con la familia alrededor de la mesa benéfico para adolescentes), AgapePress, 26 sep. 2006 En línea 25 septiembre 2006. 2 Ap 3:20

eD! and Jeff are back after a long period of technical nonsense that caused all sorts of issues with their recap of the Apple event, some basic human maintenance that eD!'s been engaging in that has made him feel less like a gnarled old man, details on where they've been all this time, and their newfound quest for whimsy! Also, as a side note, eD! owes dbrand an apology -- he thinks that his AirPods Pro case might have been to blame for his wireless charging issues, not their case for his AirPods Pro, so he's a real piece of shit for saying otherwise. Oh, and you can get the Ghost case that eD! and Jeff bought here -- that's not an affiliate link or something, dbrand just makes nice stuff and deserves your money to be honest!

Join me in this whimsical diversion, as the guitar maestro Ed Thomas takes us on a journey through some of the technologies that make Prog Rock rock.  Ed walks us through Mellotron, Moog and the development of guitar pedals.   IG: @progfrogpod helloprogfrog@gmail.com

This week on The #MiamiTech Podcast the hosts chat with Cary Gahm and Ed Thomas Co-founders of Tempmee.TempMee is a new and easier way to connect Licensed Dental Professionals with Dental Offices in need of temporary help through an on-demand staffing platform. Advanced algorithms match dental professionals with dental offices through a web and mobile platformTopics on Deck:- Raising a $4.1M Seed w/ @floridafunders - Their Amazing Co-founder Chemistry - Revolutionizing The Dental Profession - And more!Follow Ed and Cary on Twitter:https://twitter.com/mee_edhttps://twitter.com/carygahmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cary-gahm-a03084186/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-thomas-tempmee/Learn more about Tempmee: https://tempmee.com Follow the Hosts:Brian Breslin @BrianBreslinMaria Derchi @MariaDerchiIf Interested in being on the podcast please email: Miamitechpod@gmail.comPlease Like + Subscribe + Rate + Review!#miamitech #miamitechpod #crypto #nft #technology #startup

Join this podcast's Facebook Group: The Dental Marketer SocietyJoin my newsletter: https://thedentalmarketer.lpages.co/newsletter/[Click here to leave a review on iTunes]‍‍Guest: Dalton HandyBusiness Name: TempMeeCheck out Dalton's Media:‍Website: http://tempmee.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tempmeeapp/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tempmee/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tempmee/Twitter: https://twitter.com/tempmeeapp‍Dalton Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalton-handyEmail: Dalton@TempMee.com ‍Other Mentions and Links:HubSpotMarketoSalesforcePardotSlackGoogle AdsYelpCapterraHannible Barca - "We will either find a way, or make one"Steve JobsCary Gahm, Edward Thomas, and Debra SimmonsUberThe Infinite Game - Simon Sinek‍‍Host: Michael Arias‍Website: The Dental Marketer Join my newsletter: https://thedentalmarketer.lpages.co/newsletter/‍Join this podcast's Facebook Group: The Dental Marketer Society‍‍My Key Takeaways:Making sure potential patients can find you online and optimizing your website is an often overlooked essential first step.Utilizing a CRM like Hubspot can help keep all of your patient communication and followup in one place.Sending out email newsletters to remind the community that your office is up to date and spreading helpful information is a great way to stay in touch. Be sure not to overwhelm your email list though!Try to make your office and website have a unique twist, ensuring an office across the country couldn't directly copy you.Always provide options for contacting your office. Making it hard for patients to call, text, or email will be a big point of friction.If you're running a private practice, think about how you can set yourself apart from DSOs! You may be able to add more of a personal touch than most dental organizations.‍Please don't forget to share with us on Instagram when you are listening to the podcast AND if you are really wanting to show us love, then please leave a 5 star review on iTunes! [Click here to leave a review on iTunes]‍p.s. Some links are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. Please understand that we have experience with these products/ company, and I recommend them because they are helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions we make if you decide to buy something. Please do not spend any money unless you feel you need them or that they will help you with your goals.‍Episode Transcript (Auto-Generated - Please Excuse Errors)Michael: Alright, it's time to talk with our featured guest, Dalton Handy. Dalton, how's it going? Uh, pretty good. Dalton: Michael, how about you? Michael: I'm doing pretty good, man. Thanks for asking. If you could tell us a little bit about your past, your present, how'd you get to where you Dalton: are today? I. Yeah, so I've been in marketing for eight years now.I started my career coming out of the University of Denver in, in a slightly lesser known field of marketing operations. So it's all like the systems and processes that make marketing work, right, to be able to prove value and to get a feel for everything. So I started my career there. Um, I'm now here at Tempe, which is my third startup where I, I really think that I thrive, right?This is where I am able to build, I'm able to really see the impacts of my efforts, um, and I'm more connected with, with our users as well than I have been at a much larger corporation. So this is the second time that I've built a marketing department within, within a startup, and so far it's been going really well.Gotcha. Michael: So, real quick temp me Dalton: is what? Temi is a dental staffing community, so we help offices find placement with assistance as well as hygienists for both temporary, multi-day and permanent placement services as well. Gotcha. Michael: So before the other two startups that you worked at, was it in the industry, dental industry, Dalton: or No.Great question. Not in the slightest. I've spent a lot of time in cybersecurity and then the other startup that I was at was actually a highly verticalized software company. So they specialized in software for, um, portable toilet vendors, roll off dumpsters and septic pumpers. So it was very specific.Really cool company there, and that's where I really discovered my passion for startup marketing and being able to have that a lot bigger connection with, with your customers and have a lot more fun with what you're doing as a marketer too. That's where I really found my passion for it. And so even though it's kind of a funky industry, I'll, always be forever, but grateful.Yeah. Nice Michael: man. So you've been in marketing for a minute now, right? And it's cool that you're working in a company that like, you know, is revolved around our industry, right? The dental industry, of course. But when it comes to, you said you created systems and processes that make marketing work down to us.Okay, cool. What Dalton: is that? Yeah. So one of the key things that you'll note, uh, as particularly as you get into bigger companies, bigger corporations, you're gonna have a lot of different systems. But from a marketing perspective, one that's gonna be crucial is your marketing automation platform, right? So you're gonna do a lot of things outta this platform.One's gonna be sending your emails, you can build landing pages, you keep track of all your contacts and your database in that, and then you can also, you know, implement. Uh, all of your website tracking so you can see who's on your site when, what pages they're engaging with, collect data via forms, and then connect all of those activities together, right?So as soon as somebody fills out a form, cool. Now we're going to direct them over to the right sales representative, but also we're gonna send them. A text, an email, you know, whatever that might be that is in line with their previous action and then make sure that they've got the right communications going their way.So that's really the hub of, uh, any marketing operations person is going to be focused heavily on that system. But then they're also gonna be working with all of the other arms of marketing. So whether you've got, you know, your trade show, people that are sending leads one way, great. You're gonna be working with them to make sure that they can prove R o I.On their adventures. Uh, you're gonna be working with the paid media folks. Obviously, all, all your branding people, your email marketers, you really help tie everything together. So it's a, it's a really cool way to start your career, I think, because you get so much exposure to all of those different types of marketing.Ah, Michael: okay. So then how can we, I guess, funnel that into, Practice, right? Meaning like we got our front office, we have our dentist, our practice, and I know you said that's one of your area of expertise is where you build a marketing department. So could you in this real quick amount of time, like build us a marketing department for the practice?Dalton: Yeah, I think so. You know, even as somebody who hasn't done that specific niche, I think there are quite a few things that you can do right off the bat, right? And there are varying levels of automation platforms that I would start with, right? If you've got the platform and you've got access to the right tools, then you can start to build from there.So that's always kind of my step one. In fact, when I started at temp me, even during the interview process, I made it abundantly clear. Hey guys, when I start, we're gonna buy HubSpot. That's gonna be like the first thing that we're gonna do, and then we'll go from there. so, you know, looking at those, those tiers, right?So on, on the very top, like enterprise end, you've got things like Marketo. You know, Salesforce has Pardot, part O, whatever you wanna call it. and then HubSpot is great. It scales up and down as you want. so that's, that's usually a go-to start, or a starter kind of, um, automation package. So, Getting that system in first, right?Making sure that you've got everything centralized and you're gonna need one person that's dedicated to this, right? Typically, it's not gonna be somebody that is already an office manager that already has, you know, their, their plate is entirely full. But what this person should be able to come in and do is, number one, let's work with an agency.Make sure that your website is well optimized, right? Anybody who's looking for you, is gonna be able to find you, whether that's from an s e o perspective or from a pay-per-click perspective at, you know, at minimum on Google, those are the low hanging fruit. Making sure that the people who are looking are able to find you.Then what you do is you can take all that information, process it through your platform, and make sure that you're following up with people appropriately. Right? Everybody hates it. If you submit a contact form, you know you're interested in the business, you're potentially gonna buy something, spend money, and then you don't hear back.You know, it's a bit of a slap in the face, right? So that's one of the nice things about these platforms is you schedule those. Automatically to, to go out. As soon as somebody submits the form, you know, you're gonna set a reminder for maybe the marketing person, maybe the office manager to put in a call, Hey, let's get you on the schedule.You know, what does, what does that really look like? So that would be kind of my, my beginning of that. In addition to, I. You know, putting together some simple things, a newsletter, some content pieces, just to, just to really show people that your practice is at the forefront of dentistry. Um, that you're really staying up to date, you know, obviously on all your CE and things like that.but that they're not going to somebody who is I. Posting, right? Mm-hmm. I, I don't, that, that's not the practice that I want to go to. I want to go to somebody who is, who's really on top of their game, and I think that you can really highlight all of that through your various marketing efforts. Email is a great one because it's free, right?You can, you can always email. there's a bunch out there. My, my recommended cadence on email too is typically gonna be two to three times a week at absolute max. I would probably, for a practice. Once every two weeks. Something like that would be more of the max that I would go to. Just to stay in touch, stay in front of people, make sure that they're getting useful information, but not overwhelm 'em with any, any information that you've got going on.Michael: Yeah, interesting. So HubSpot and Pardo or Pardot you said, right? if I just got it, I'm listening to this episode. Okay, I got HubSpot now what do I do? Right. Kind of thing. Dalton: Yeah, for sure.Okay. So there's quite a few sections within, I'll use HubSpot, the As the example. That's what we use now. I think it's, it is great for, Many levels of business. So there's gonna be your marketing hub and there's a sales hub For our perspective, you know, obviously a lot more, uh, focused on the marketing hub.So you've got a few different sections. One's gonna be all your contacts, so this is gonna be people that are already in your system, existing patients, things like that. Uh, and then it's also gonna collect the new folks that as they come in, so you'll wanna set up a few normal fields just to track the things that are relevant to you, right?So, Uh, you know, for example, when somebody hits our website and fills out a form, we wanna figure out are you representing a practice? Are you a hygienist? Are you an assistant? You know exactly who are you? So you set up a few custom fields to get that right information so that you can speak to people as they want to be spoken to.Right? That's always gonna be any, uh, goal with any marketing effort. So you set up, you know, your foundations there and you can build some basic workflows, right? So if you've got your website, you put a form on the website. Okay, cool. As soon as that form is filled out, you can create what's called a workflow to say, great, I'm gonna shoot them a text saying exactly this.I'm gonna shoot them an email saying exactly this. You can use some customization tokens as well. So basically what that'll do is if they give you their first and last name, great. Let's use that in the email just to show that you know, we're listening and, and we care. Uh, and then you've got, you know, default values.Then you can also connect that to any other, many other systems that you've got. So, for example, if you use Slack, internally or something like that, you can send an alert to say your office manager to follow up with that person and, and place a call so you can place all their information there.Those would be my, my number one steps, and then you'd start to build out some email templates, probably some landing page templates, things that you can reuse time and time again as you launch different initiatives. Gotcha. Michael: Okay. So it's a lot we can do with that, right? Dalton: Yeah. It's, it's really, we use it certainly as like our, our centralized hub for all things marketing.and then, you know, as you get all of that data coming in, then you can say, okay, cool. How much are we really getting out of our Google ads? Right. And you can start to kind of go deeper and dive into how successful, uh, all of your channels are, are so far. Michael: Hmm. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. So it's really good for like tracking as well and everything like that.Dalton: Yeah, most definitely. And particularly, you know, on the email side, it's great. You can take a look at any email, you're gonna see your open rate, bounce rate, click rate, click through rate. You can see what links are being clicked on, what isn't all, all that good stuff, um, just baked right there into the app.Michael: Gotcha man. Awesome. Okay, so then let's talk a little bit more about, business when it comes to dentists. So like, what can a practice owner, a dentist do today to improve their marketing or their business? Dalton: I think number one is always gonna start with the website, right? That's an area where people are always gonna pop to anytime they're considering, you know, joining or coming to your practice, as a patient.So that's, that's always where I wanna start, number one, making sure that it's at least up to date, you know, with the right information, hours, all that good stuff, but also that it has a welcoming atmosphere. I think. one thing that is, Always a little bit tricky is overusing stock imagery, right? Mm-hmm.I think that that can be something that's a little tricky. It's not gonna necessarily give people the feeling of safety and comfortability, uh, as they come in and check out your practice. And then you also wanna make sure I. Every conversion point is optimized, right? So if I'm coming to your website as somebody who's considering, being a patient at your practice, I wanna make sure that once I decide, cool, this looks great, that I can get in touch with you as quickly as possible, I.Whether I wanna pick up the phone now, I'm 30, that's never the answer for me, right? I wanna ha have multiple options. So, uh, you know, whether it's a text line, incorporating chat onto the website or just filling out a form, Hey, this is what I'm looking for, this is when I'd like to come in, that type of thing.And then even if somebody gives me a call back, I'm, you know, that understand about that. but making sure that people can really get ahold of you is something that. Is absolutely essential and is often actually overlooked. Right? We, we put so much time and effort into making a beautiful site that really speaks to the core of who we are, what makes us special, all those things.And then it's easy to forget, oh wait, we're here to generate business From this site. Yeah. Michael: For you personally, right now, let's just say you got on Delton, got on the website, practice looking for somebody, some pops up right on Google. Would you search on Google or how would you look? Go about?Dalton: Yeah, absolutely. That'd be, that'd be my first go-to. I'm gonna look at dental practices around me, right? 'cause I want something that's, you know, close proximity. So we moved two years ago to, to this specific area of Denver that we live in. And so it's exactly what I did was I hopped on Google Maps, actually is is another thing.And that's, its home, it's own whole area of ss e o. Um, but yes, Google and Google Maps are gonna be the primary way that I would try to find a new practice. Michael: Okay, so you went on Google Maps, and then you clicked on the first one or the first couple, right? And then how would you want it to go from that point on?Would you, what is the first things you're looking at? What are the things where you're like, all right, I'm gonna contact now, or I'm gonna save it for later. Lemme look at somebody else. What made you wanna save it for later? And look it for Dalton: somebody else? I'm looking for a little bit of familiarity, right?I wanna hit your site and understand, a practice halfway across the country couldn't have this exact same website, right? So actually one of the things that stuck out to me about the practice that I go to. They had this really cool, uh, initial picture on their homepage of, I think it was everybody that works at the office just decked out in their Bronco gear, right.They'd say, you know, they're, they're all about the Broncos there. Yeah. And, uh, so I was like, okay, cool. I get, I get, you know, a little bit of something about who they are without even having to read anything. And so I think, you know, being able to put, put out who you are, and that's something that we're trying to do.Temp me too is, is highlight some of the things that culturally make us special because there's inherent familiarity and comfortability that lies within that. Um, but I, I think that be personal, show who you are, show what makes you special, those are absolutely something. There are things that anybody can do and can tap into to make people feel comfortable and, and excited about, you know, coming to your practice.Gotcha. So Michael: you got on that website and immediately you booked something or were you like, let me look, let me look at. Other stuff. Dalton: I checked a couple others around just to, you know, do my due diligence. I'm the kind of person who, if I'm going on vacation, I'm gonna make a spreadsheet that has all of the different options and then rank on different variables.Right? That's, that's how I do my decision making. It's never one and done. Um, but that one really stood out to me, right? I, I felt like I understood what they were about and so I circled back after maybe looking at three or four more. Also, obviously checked the reviews, right? That's always a huge thing, uh, making sure that primarily your Google reviews are in good shape.Uh, there are a num number of ways that you can incentivize people to get those reviews, but also responded to is a good thing to look at, right? That's, that's somebody that to me is on top of their business and really caress, right? Negative reviews will happen. There's always gonna be, you know, some.Patient that you can never make happy, right? Mm-hmm. But responding to those reviews in a kind way that shows compassion, understanding, and that you're just caring about your business is, is always a great look. Michael: Yeah. And so the three to four that you were checking out that you're like, nah, they don't fit, but this is like your due diligence, what was the things where you were like, actually, what was the one outta the, the four that you were looking at where you were like, And you know what I mean?Like the bounce rate was super fast where you're just like, nah, I don't want to Dalton: get on this one. Yeah. I think the ones that I would've pointed to like that were ones that looked like something I could have made, you know, in a week. I exclusively stock imagery. There's nothing that points to this office being special.it is really cut and dry. And then certainly anybody that had less than like 4.4, 4.5 stars on Google with the, with their reviews at a good volume, that was always gonna be a huge concern. Michael: Do you check more on Yelp or on Google? Dalton: I check more on Google personally. Yeah. Okay, gotcha.Interesting. Yelp is always interesting, right? There's, uh, different components to basically any rating or review site, whether it's Capterra for software or Yelp for, you know, basically anything. there's always a pay to play component, so I'm naturally a little, little skeptical, right? I think the overall rating is usually gonna be in good shape, but I also understand that the order in which things are presented to me isn't necessarily gonna be, I.In the order of quality, uh mm-hmm. You know, the one through 10 isn't gonna necessarily be reflective of that quality. Michael: Yeah, that's true. That's true. And so then on the, on the website that you went with the Broncos, everybody, right? Like in the ones that you decided to, that's it. How did you contact Dalton: them?Ooh, that's a good question. I'm not sure I remember. Uh, I believe that I filled out their contact us form. Okay. And that's what Michael: you like? Dalton: Yeah, that's, that's what I like. 'cause then I can, you know, drop a line, particularly if I'm, you know, buying software or something like that, I can drop a line to multiple different options.See how they get back to me. To me, that's gonna be indicative of their performance as a business. And then go from there. Right. Maybe some, some offices weren't gonna be, Weren't going to be accepting new patients, anything like that. Of course, if that's the case, you'd expect a notice, you know, on the website that Hey, don't waste your time here, we're full.Um, but then go from there in terms of, you know, responding to any emails that they send me, they expect a phone call, that type of thing. Michael: Gotcha. Because sometimes, like when, I remember when I was working in the practice, like we would get a form filled out and they told us they wanted us. To call you guys.Yeah, and I don't know if that was the best thing. Would you prefer that or would you prefer like a text message or an email? What would you prefer Dalton: as an individual? I would prefer a text. I. As a marketer, my recommendation would be to hit 'em with everything you know, is, is an automated email, an automated text, and then a phone call after a little while.Right. Just to, just to give people the options with the understanding of, Hey, I'm not gonna overwhelm this person over the course of a period, but I'm gonna make sure that as they get their information that they're hearing back from me through whatever channel they might be, uh, most accessible via.Michael: What would be like the time period? So let's just say you hit 'em back with an email first. You don't hear from them and I don't know specific Then do we hit them back like the next day with a text and then if we don't hear them the third day, we hit them with a call? Or is it more like all in a 24 Dalton: hour period?Uh, typically I'd get all of them within a 24 hour period, and then that'll kick off usually a sequence. So, A good example is right now, if you come to the Temp Me website and you fill out the form there, say, say you're a hygienist and, uh, you're interested in that number one within five minutes, actually it's, it's much closer to one minute, which is the target.you'll get a text and you'll get an email just saying like, Hey, here's the link to download the app. And also here is an opportunity to speak with one of our onboarding representatives if you have questions about it. Here's, here's where you go to download or to schedule that. Then we'll, uh, we'll wait a day and then we'll send you, Hey, just checking in.We saw you had the interest, you know, is now a good time to chat? Anything like that. And we'll also have a call or two placed at that point from our onboarding representatives. And so that's sequence, we'll, we'll spread out a couple texts, a couple emails across about a week. There are a lot of studies that show particularly on more of the outbound, right?So it's not somebody coming into your website and filling out a form. But on the outbound side, it takes anywhere from like seven to 12 touches really to get somebody to pick up the phone or to accept that call, right? It, it takes time. It takes. Persistence as well. So I would encourage people to not give up.Right. There's a good reason that somebody filled out that form in the first place. Maybe they found something else, maybe they haven't. But, a flurry of touches almost immediately is great. And then some persistent touches as well. Michael: I like that. Okay, good. And then you mentioned make yourself culturally different, and then you mentioned temp me.So what culturally makes temp me Dalton: special? I. That's, that's my favorite question. are a super values driven culture, and by that I don't mean that we have anything just like plastered on the walls. Granted, we do have our values on the walls, but but the current space that we're in, we actually took over from a bank that had, the slogans put on the walls right there.like an owner, you know, be empowered. You know, these really kind of vague things. ours. We're developed when our company was like five people, and they sat down and said, Hey, what makes us special? And so they came up with this list of five core values. And so those are things that we incorporate into everything that we do.Uh, we hire by them if we ever need to part ways with somebody. We do that, buy the core values, right? So we go through and, and analyze is this person a fit based on our core values? And then we ensure that, all of the actions that we're taking are in alignment with those values. That serves as such a strong, guidepost, north Star, you know, whatever you want to call it.And then our, our founders are extremely invested in those values and making sure that, you know, everybody else is as well. Um, so between that and then setting extremely high goals and, you know, giving a, a direct pathway toward reaching those goals is a great start for building the culture that you, that you want to see.Michael: Gotcha. Okay. So what are Temp me's core values? Dalton: Yeah, so number one is called it's your ship. Uh, what this really means is, Hey, we put a lot of faith in our hiring efforts. You've joined our team. We feel like you are the absolute best person to do exactly what you do. Go run with it. You don't need to ask for, for permission, uh, even when things don't go, uh, as perfectly as you'd think.Learn from it, move on. Right? We want people to be empowered to make their own decisions. Of course, in a practice, you know, sometimes that can, I could see that going a little sideways, but for most of the day-to-day stuff, right? You're trained, you know what to do, go make it happen. Second one. Uh, hard work doesn't have to be serious for me.This is super different than work hard, play hard, right? Mm-hmm. To me, in like a tech setting, work hard, play hard is going to be, you know, you're going to really kind of hate what you do from like eight to six, but then we might throw a killer happy hour where everybody just gets super messed up, right?Like That's what work hard, play hard sounds like to me. Uh, don't get me wrong, we have great happy hours. Uh, that's, that's all fun too. But, For me, this is, Hey, we spend so much of our lives working, we should enjoy what we're doing. Both the output that you have as an individual, as well as the people that you're working with, right?You're spending so much more time with your coworkers than you are, you know, even some of your best friends in a lot of cases. That they should be people that you enjoy. So if you're not enjoying those things, number one is, is that a you thing or do we need some to make some changes at, at a cultural structural level?So that's one of my favorites honestly. number three is, is leave it better. So this one's I. Super practical. Hey, you walk into our kitchen at the office, uh, if you see a paper towel or something out, even if it's not yours, throw it away. Right? There's a, there's a percentage of people that make the world worse than they found it.There's a large percentage of people that leave it about the same, which is cool too, right? You know, you're not, you're not leaving a negative impact or anything. But then there's a small percentage of people that actually leave the world better than they found it. And I like to apply this to conversations, you know, and, and any type of interaction in addition to the actual, like physical cleaning of any space.I hope that your day is two to 5% better 'cause we have this conversation, right? I, I hope that I can bring a little bit of, uh, something interesting, something fun, you know, make your day just a little bit better because we've had this conversation and I think that that's really consistent throughout our organization as well.number four is gonna be find a way or make one. So this comes from kind of the Hannibal Barka quote of, uh, taking the elephants, uh, over the Alps to Sack Rome. I could not say the Latin version. Uh, it's out there. It's, you know, if, if you're really curious, I'm sure you can Google it, but for this is, Hey, we, we don't give up at the first thing.Right? You know, there are a lot of cool things about our platform just from a tech perspective that, you know, took multiple iterations and somebody saying, you know what? I'm not gonna give up on this until I find it. that is able to really help you achieve that next level of success, right? So we wanna make sure that people are diligent, that they're not easily dissuaded, that type of thing.And then the last one is true believer. So, we want people to be on our team that really believe that we can achieve our goals, right? We want to change the way the world works, uh, not just for dentistry, but for for other verticals as well. And. That doesn't happen if you don't believe that it can.Right. So this kind of ties into a lot of like Steve Jobs philosophy in quotes. but yeah, you have to believe to be able to succeed. So those are the five. Michael: Okay, good. That's real. I like that. I like that a lot, especially, um, I like all of 'em, but I like to leave it better than or leave it better. Right.Dalton: Yeah. And actually that one comes from a really cool story. So, um, one of our co-founders, Kerry, he grew up, well, actually both of our co-founders grew up in northern Michigan, but, uh, Kerry spent a lot of time traveling around the country with his mom in like a, an old station wagon. so Carrie and his mom and family would take a lot of these road trips and one time at a gas station.Kerry goes to throw his water bottle away, you know, physically throw it at a few yards or whatever. He misses and tries to get in the car. His mom says, no, Kerry, what are you doing? Go pick it up. And so he's said, fine, mom, you know, whatever. He goes, picks up the water bottle, puts it in there, and he comes back to the car and his mom says, no.Carrie, you're not done yet. There were, you know, a half dozen other pieces of trash right there while you're picking up your water bottle. You could have done that and you could have made the world a better place. Uh, you know, even if so slightly. And that's the kind of people that we are. So that's exactly where this core value comes from, is, is Carrie's mom and being, you know, one of those people that really strives for better and that, you know, leaving no impact isn't good enough.We have to leave a good impact. Michael: Yeah, I like that man, real quick, who's the founders of Tempe? Dalton: Yeah, so Carrie Game and Ed Thomas are the, uh, are the partners that are now running things, but we also were founded by a 30 year hygienist, Debra Simmons, who actually came to them with the idea, right? She's like, Hey, this system isn't working.You know, she, she was a hygienist as well as an office manager, and so she is like, man, I, I see the need for this. You guys, you know, are, are entrepreneurs. You've built businesses before. There's gotta be something here. Right? And so they, they worked it all out from there. Ed took it to Carrie. Carrie thought it was a terrible idea at first, actually.And then, uh, they sat down and I think they, they stayed on the phone for like eight hours that night. Just hashing it out, you know, talking about, well, what if we did it this way? 'cause I think the original idea was I. More of a scheduling app, right? Mm-hmm. Of like, you can have one shared schedule that a bunch of people hop on, that type of thing.And, uh, that, that wasn't gonna necessarily be the way, but now they settled on, you know, our, our current concept and really just have run with it from there. So, Deb isn't as involved in our business currently, but I, I know that she retained her stake and is, uh, still invested in the business, which is, which is really cool.Michael: Gotcha. So currently, what is it right now? Temp me. Yeah, Dalton: so a easy way to think about it is Uber for dental staffing, right? Uh, if you're in office, you go on, you post a shift that you've got coming up. Say, you know, your hygienist is taking a long weekend. She's gonna be out Thursday. It's Monday. Cool. I'm gonna post that, and it's gonna go automatically out to all of the relevant hygienists in your area.So, they'll get notified via their phone. It's all through the app. They get notified, they can either accept it, they can counter offer, which is a pretty cool feature, or they can just leave it be, we don't have any minimums or anything like that that they need to meet to operate through our platform.All the payments handled through the platform and, and everything like that. So it's really a quick, easy way to find the people that you need to keep your practice moving along. Is this Michael: like available everywhere, everywhere right now or is it more, you know what I mean, like rural Texas?Yeah. Dalton: So right now we're doing, uh, good amounts of shifts in 22 states, uh, every week. and then, you know, some rural areas have great coverage. Others not so much, right? It's always gonna be dependent on whether or not there are enough people to build a marketplace there. So if there's. Three offices and 10 hygienists in, you know, 25 mile radius.That's probably realistically not gonna be something that we can have a huge solve for unless, you know, people are really willing to expand their radius within the app and you know, they're driving 50, 75 miles, whatever that might be, to pick up shifts at an office. So we definitely do have much easier success in the metro areas, but it's not exclusive to the metro areas by any means.You guys Michael: vet like everybody or like what is the vetting process? So when it comes to all this, Dalton: Yeah, great question. So every person that's on our platform, every professional that's on our platform has been vetted. So from a hygienist perspective, uh, to sign up, you're gonna need to enter, you know, all your basic information, you're gonna enter your licensure information.So we'll check that, make sure there are no derogatory marks on the record, that everything's up to date, current, all that good stuff. And then we'll also require a picture of the state id. to, you know, make sure that you are, who you say you are. All, all things match up between kind of the three main areas there.Then for the assistance, it's super similar except for, licensure for assistance varies wildly state by state. So we take that on a state by state basis. You know, I think Minnesota and Texas are great examples of, they operate super similarly to hygienists for the most part. If you're gonna have, you know, a license, we can pop on, check it out, all that good stuff.Florida, our home state is super different. It's, there are three routes. You can have six months of on-the-job training, you can graduate from a program or you can pass a certification course. Right? So in those, different ways, we have to evaluate each of them. So you may have to submit some additional documentation, things like that.And then we do ongoing verification as well. So at the end of every shift, that's worked through our platform, both parties. So the office and the professional are gonna rate one, another, one to five and include comments, right? So anybody who is consistently receiving poor remarks, uh, poor scores, you know, hey, they really don't know what they're doing, anything like that.We'll have conversations with that person. Try to really get to the bottom. Is this an unreasonable ask from the office or is this person, you know, not really cut out to, be utilizing our platform? In which case, you know, we do have to restrict their access. Hmm. How often does that Michael: happen, Dalton? Like where you're like, ah, you, I don't know how you even got on this platform.Dalton: It's pretty rare. to the, I don't even know how you got on this platform. Never happens. The, that's, you know, that, that'd be the super extreme end of it. But I think the, Hey, your, your skills aren't quite up to where they need to be is probably less than one to 2% of our platform. So, you know, sometimes things come up, right.We're all humans, they're, life is hard. There's gonna be. All these external things that can impact somebody's ability to do their job, but ultimately we, we have to, you know, prioritize patient care and making sure that patients are well taken care of, regardless of who, who's in the office that day.Mm-hmm. So when it comes down to make those tough decisions, that's, what we signed up for, honestly. Michael: Yeah. Okay. And this is for all like associates, hygienists, assistants, and everything? Or is it just right Dalton: now? We've got hygienists and assistance currently, and then we should actually be rolling out associates in kind of, uh, we'll call 'em beta states here in the next 30 to 60 days, we'll call it.So there are other considerations on the associate side, right? So you've gotta have matching. I. insurance. Right? So that's, that's one whole thing that has to be in place. We're expanding our background checks as well for that side, and then ensuring, you know, that we're, we've got all of the malpractice insurance and everything that's rolled up to the associates before we roll that out.'cause, you know, missing some of those things would be, yeah, really rough. That's, that's not what we're trying to do. So that's the only reason that we haven't rolled those out already. But we're super excited to bring that functionality. We do permanent placement services for all three of those groups already, though.Michael: I was gonna ask you that, like has it ever happened to where it's like, man, I love this person and they love us. Like, can we just keep them or Dalton: all the time. Yeah, all the time. I mean, it's, we're, we exist because there's a staffing shortage, right? Mm-hmm. a lot of the time, uh, that's going to happen.And so we just ask for our buyout fee, which is typically a couple thousand dollars. If you compare it to when I have to go hire somebody from my team, if I work with an external agency or anything like that, I'm gonna pay 20% of their salary. Our fee is significantly less than that. You know, it's, it's, you know, three grand or whatever.it's, it's gonna be a much easier burden, but then it's all free and clear that office, that professional, uh, they're gonna be tied to one another. That's a W two employee moving forward and they're good to Michael: go. Yeah. Nice. So what, what are, if I can ask, what are like the major, maybe top three major cities that are utilizing Tempe right Dalton: now?Tampa is a huge one for us. So that's, you know, we're born and raised in South Florida, so that one makes a ton of sense. Uh, and then there are quite a few others that are spread throughout the country. Atlanta is also very big for us, New York there I. Honestly, quite a few where we're doing really great business.You know, I think people have really latched onto the concept and understood, hey, this is a new way to really get into what we call skill sharing, right? Mm-hmm. So, uh, even though the concept is very similar to gig work, we really shy away from that term because to, to us, that is somebody that is not necessarily specialized in the field that they're working, I could take my car, sign up for Uber, join kind of gig work right now. Uh, if, if that's something that I wanted to do, I could not start practicing hygiene or become an assistant, nor should I, but, uh, you know, we wanna recognize that these people have very specific skill sets that they have worked for.years to develop. And so in, in utilizing our platform, they are truly sharing those skills with the greater marketplace. And we wanna be very cognizant of that. So I think people understand that, um, they're excited to have a little bit more freedom with how they work, uh, ability to gain extra income, things like that.And then of course, offices need their staff to keep going. And as we've seen post covid, they're just. Quite frankly aren't enough dental staff to go around. So this type of skill sharing model I think is a great way to help bridge those gaps. Michael: Gotcha. Okay. Nice. I like that. And then how does this kind of compare, or what would you say is like the, ' cause there's others, right?Competitors, yeah. So well, what makes it different, I guess? Dalton: Yeah, great question. I think we can break it up into both sides of the marketplace. Right? So which side are you more curious about? Offices or professionals? Ooh, both. I. Okay, uh, let's start with offices. One cool thing about our platform is offices don't have to pay to sign up and there's no monthly fee.We only pay on the, or we only charge on the temp side when we actually help you get a fill. So we only charge after that connection has been made. That individual has confirmed that they're gonna work at your office, all that good stuff. So, From an office perspective, it's a great additional tool to have in case you ever need any type of staffing.we also process all the payment through our platform, so certainly as opposed to, some competitors, but primarily, you know, more old school ways of like cutting a check or anything like that. You don't have to worry about any of that, which is obviously a huge positive for our professionals as well.They get their money via direct deposit. In the latest at like four days, they also have the option to get express pay. So as soon as the hours are confirmed by both parties, they get paid out. They have to pay a small fee, you know, to tell the banks to hurry up is essentially what that fee is. that's a huge perk there.another perk for our offices is that they can post up to five shifts without having to pay anything. You don't even have to enter your credit card information. So, You can really get a feel for if this is gonna be something that's gonna be beneficial for us as well as, you know, the, the provider quality is extremely high, particularly as compared to, you know, more traditional temp agencies where, you know, most of the, most of our providers do have a current full-time job.There are people that are at the absolute peak of their profession that are just looking to pick up a little bit of extra work around the sides. So with that, you know, you're getting somebody who can come in, who's gonna take great care of your patients, who's gonna be, you know, more than likely a joy to work with around the office and is the epitome of a professional.So those are kind of the, a few of the key areas that we offer for the offices. You know, there's tons of ancillary stuff like it's. Extremely easy to use, right? Mm-hmm. It takes about 45 seconds to post a shift that, that you've got open. as well as we've got some market rate guidance baked into that.So based on your area, we're gonna kind of suggest are you at a hundred percent of the market value rate? Are you under, are you over? That type of thing, which really, you know, is a nice little coaching tool for offices to know what they really should be posting yet. 'cause sometimes it doesn't feel like it should be that high or that low, it's a great way to keep people in line.On the professional side, it's, it's all about freedom, right? Mm-hmm. So we don't mm-hmm. Have any restrictions or anything like that, uh, baked into our platform. Professionals can use us, they can use other apps where whatever's gonna make the most sense for them is highly encouraged by us. Right? There's no minimum.So if you want to work a shift that pops up on your phone, then great. Grab it. That's amazing. We're excited. We'd love to have you. Uh, but if it doesn't make sense for you to not work or to pick up any temp shifts for six months, a year, whatever that might be, then cool. Don't you know that we, we don't feel like we have, uh, any foot to stand on to tell people what to do.And so we, we really want people to be able to make their own way in life, and we really like to break it down into more solid terms around the money that they can make. So, Across the nation. You know, a temporary hygienist full day shift is gonna net you 400 to four 50 bucks. So hey, you pick up one shift a month.Cool. That's a car payment. You know, that's saving up for a vacation. These are really tangible things that we believe and see make a big impact on people's lives, and that's part of the reason why we do what we do is to see that impact and, and to see them be able to live a little bit better life.Just because they work through our platform is, is really cool. Michael: Yeah. Nice man. Okay. Awesome. So really, really great benefits. Features too. But benefits, right when it comes to professionals and also the office. Dalton: Absolutely. And I should add one more thing is we put a huge emphasis on high touch with high tech.So, you know, the platform is high tech. It's easy to use, it's great it operates, you know, as, as it intended, all that good stuff. But we've got a ton of real people that make temp me work. So whether that's. Uh, professional that's coming on. There's a team of onboarders that are just dedicated to making sure that all of their questions are answered, right?We understand that this, you're using us full-time, part-time, whatever, this is still employment, right? This is where your money is coming from. We understand that that's not always gonna be the most comfortable thing to just sign up for an app and start accepting shifts. Right this, there's a lot at stake.It feels like there's a lot at stake, so we wanna make sure that you hear from real people, that you have the opportunity to voice Any questions, concerns, anything like that? I. And then it's also very much true of our customer success team. It's a large team of some of the kindest, most helpful human beings that you've ever encountered in your life, so you can access them.We've got very expanded hours, even though we're on the east coast. Uh, typically, you know, you can, you can reach us from seven to seven is, is typically what we say. And then, you're gonna be able to reach them by text, by email, by phone. There's a bunch of ways to make sure that you get what you need.And I think that that's actually a huge differentiator for us in the marketplace. Michael: So I like that, man. Yeah. it does come down to that like, we want convenience, we wanna reach out to people, we wanna be able to fill out that form. Text, you know what I mean? But when it comes to us wanting to complain or do or find somebody, we're like, I wanna speak to a human.give me, you know what I mean, kind of thing. And so, or when we're having a hard time with something, sometimes we're not all tech savvy, right? Yeah, absolutely. So we do wanna speak to, to a human right instead of like, um, zero now and then talk. So I like that, man. Interesting. Now these next questions are just to get into the head of someone who isn't totally involved on the clinical side of dentistry, uh, every day.What would you ton like to see more from a dentist?Dalton: You mean just from a, a business perspective or specifically if I'm visiting the dentist, things like that. Let's do both. Okay. from a business perspective, I think that I'd like to see. More particularly private practice owners, really tapping into that sense of community that, I think a lot of us grew up with. Right. You know, I think about the dentist's office that I went to, growing up. I grew up in a small town, and so I went to the same dentist for basically my entire, you know, childhood life, you know, from three to 18 or or whatever it age it is.You start going to the dentist, I don't even know. Really tapping into that from a marketing perspective, I think is extremely powerful. And I think that that's one of the areas that private practices can win in a market, you know, that we're all aware is, is largely being consolidated by, by DSOs. So that's one thing from a business perspective that I would absolutely love to see.from a, you know, patient perspective, I really don't have any complaints, man. I, I think about, you know, all my, all my experiences. I walk in. Everybody at the front desk is extremely happy, welcoming, friendly. The booking process is smooth. You know, there's so many tools out there. If you go to a trade show these days and just wander the exhibit hall for a little bit, you're gonna just be inundated by all these platforms, tools, whatever, to make your business run more smoothly.And I think. Plenty of offices a

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In this TIPisode, Cary and Ed from TempMee give their thoughts and advice for this year's group of new grads entering the job market. The future is bright and you have so many options - keep an open mind and congrats on the completion of all your hard work! www.TempMee.com and be sure to download the app!

On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell,  Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, USAF, the commander of the US Air Force Recruiting Command, discusses what makes America's newest generation tick, the challenges in attracting them to military service in a society where fewer Americans service in uniform and how that all impacts recruiting, the difficulties of retaining talent whether on the active-duty force or transitioning them to Reserve or Air National Guard units, how a new generation is helping change the force, and how the military services are cooperating closely despite competing intensely for talent with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

In this episode, Jeff and Ed discuss: The God hugs in our life.God's hand in all things in our lives. Principles that all business people need to hear. Focusing on eternity.   Key Takeaways: God has His hand in all aspects of our lives. If He says something will work, it will. He is the deliverer of all things. The Word of God can spread through any good thing. It's not a matter of money - that should not be the focus. It is all God's and it is all about what brings Him glory. Use your LIFE (Labor, Influence, Finances, Expertise) for Christ.    "Don't focus on things. Don't focus on possessions. Focus on what God wants you to use that money for. As it says in Luke, our focus should be on the eternal things of souls of men and women." —  Ed Thomas About Ed Thomas: Ed is an entrepreneurial owner of several businesses with his 2 sons (Stephen and Paul), in healthcare, real estate, and water management. Wanda, his wife of 55 years recently went Home to Heaven. In addition to his 2 sons, he has a daughter (Suzanne Werlein) and 8 grandchildren. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. degree in accounting and played NCAA football while there.  Ed has been and is actively involved in several Christ-centered activities and has been on several ministry boards. Currently, Ed is involved on the Board of Directors of the Great Commission (CRU) Foundation, on the executive council of History's Handful, and on the Advisory Board (and one of the founders) of the National Christian Foundation-Houston. Ed has taught business, home, and church Bible studies (for over 30 years) and has traveled (often in public speaking and mission roles) to every US state and 93 countries. He recently released his published book on Amazon, “Life Journey With God”. Connect with Ed Thomas:Book: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Journey-God-Edwin-Thomas-ebook/dp/B0BL1VLHXJLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-thomas-b681457/  Connect with Jeff Thomas: Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-upEmail: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisorsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/

Dr. Ed Thomas is back on the podcast to discuss the Restorative and Martial Arts (RAMA) program he ran at Fort Benning, GA and how the model might be used current day to create a similar program.  

If you know of Dr. Ed Thomas you are going to love this episode! If you don't know who Dr. Ed Thomas is, you are going to REALLY love this episode!!!Below is Dr. Thomas's brief bio:Ed.D., Curriculum & Supervision, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 1992, Emphasis in Health PromotionEd.S., Curriculum & Supervision, Northern Illinois University, 1987, Emphasis in Health PromotionM.A., Exercise Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1975B.S., Exercise Science, The University of Iowa, 1972Iowa Department of Education Health and Physical Education Consultant for 13 years35 years at numerous schools including The U of Iowa, Emory U, Northern Illinois U, Graceland U and The US Army Physical Fitness SchoolFulbright Scholar to Burma and Thailand, 1988Fulbright Specialist to Korea, 2012Army Infantry, 1967-69“Dr. Thomas is undoubtedly the U.S. Army's top physical readiness training expert.He has inspired a paradigm shift that will benefit our soldiers for years to come.” – Lt. Col. William Rieger, Commandant. United States Army Physical Fitness School. Fort Benning, Georgia. 2000Indian Club tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3-11EEVZ0A video discussing Dr. Martin's uncommon posture theories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTFyErotDwMore videos can be found on Dr. Thomas's YouTube channel viamilitaris

Enlisted airmen who work in some of the Air Force's most difficult jobs will receive from $900 to $5,400 less annually beginning next month as the service faces financial challenges that affect the ranks. Hundreds of service members will see cuts to their Special Duty Assignment Pay, known as SDAP, in fiscal 2023 -- which starts Oct. 1. Those monthly payments, ranging from $75 to $450, were an extra incentive "to compensate enlisted service members who serve in duties which are extremely difficult," according to budget documents. "The Air Force saw an overall reduction of over $3 million to the FY23 SDAP budget based on fiscal constraints," service spokeswoman Laurel Falls told Military.com. "Due to the reduced funding levels, SDAP rates for 44 functional communities saw reductions." In the fiscal 2023 budget, the Air Force is asking the federal government for 30,845 airmen to receive the more than $90.2 million worth of Special Duty Assignment Pay. It's a lower figure than the last two years, being cut by $1.5 million and around 500 airmen, according to budget documents. For 2022, the Air Force asked for 31,334 airmen to receive $91.7 million; in 2021, the service asked for 30,967 airmen to receive $90.8 million in Special Duty Assignment Pay. The Air Force is facing a $3 million shortfall to the Special Duty Assignment Budget for 2023, according to the service. Air Force Headquarters held a meeting this past November to address the problem prior to crafting the 2023 budget, Falls told Military.com. To avoid the cuts, lawmakers would have to reinstate the Special Duty Assignment Pay difference in the 2023 budget proposal before it's approved by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden. The military's annual budget could be finalized later this year. Dozens of Air Force career fields will be affected by the cut to Special Assignment Duty Pay. One of those is recruiters. Air Force Recruiting Service recruiters are set to lose their $75 in special duty pay each month for fiscal 2023, which would add up to nearly $900 a year in lost wages. Losing the pay could be a blow to recruiters' morale as they face difficult challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic inflation and a shifting workforce. Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, the head of the Air Force Recruiting Service, promised recruiters he would push for the extra pay to be reinstated in the next fiscal year. The general "recognizes the unique challenges Air Force recruiters and their families experience and he is working to have the monthly $75 payment restored in the future," spokesman Randy Martin told Military.com Here's a list of all the Air Force's special duty pay that would be reduced in fiscal 2023, according to budget documents: Recruiters Basic Military Training instructors Human Intelligence debriefers Combat Controllers Pararescue operators Command chief master sergeants First sergeants Defense Attaché Office (DAO) liaisons Nuclear Enterprise airmen Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agents Air Traffic Control (ATC) supervisors Postal and National Defense Advisory Commission (NDAC) enablers Tactical Air Command and Control Party (TACP) operators Enlisted pilots and weapons directors Parachute instructors and those with test parachute program Flight attendants Mission system specialists Load masters USAF Honor Guards Special Reconnaissance operators Phoenix Raven Security Forces defenders Forward Area Refueling Point enablers Flying crew chiefs Defense couriers Airmen who support various commands Enlisted airmen who work with special government agencies Public affairs airmen assigned to recruiting squadrons Air transportation airmen Airmen assigned to special classified Air Force projects. PJ Roy Benavides: https://www.youtube.com/embed/i3nncd4sxaM Combat Controller John Chapman

eD! and Jeff are back to talk about a wide assortment of topics, including chocolate bars, language-learning apps, and sunflower seeds! And, y'know, all the stuff from the "Far Out" Apple event that happened on Wednesday. You knew that already, though, since, like, when do we not talk about the bazillions of dollars we just hand our pals in Cupertino?

This week, we are really excited to host Aaron Thomas, the head boys basketball coach at Aplington-Parkersburg (IA)! We have a great discussion on a variety of topics, including the influence of his father, the legendary Ed Thomas, on both his coaching career and the community of A-P. Along with that, we discuss teaching leadership, transition offense and scoring alot of points, developing your youth program, and much more! Great discussion with one of Iowa's best!

PLUS: The latest on how much President Biden knew about the DOJ's raid of Mar-A-Lago as well as Anthony Fauci's attempts to rewrite history. [00:11:03] Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas & Lt. Col. Dan Rooney [00:18:26] Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) [00:36:47] Jared Kushner [01:13:33] Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) [01:29:38] Martha MacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Lakeshore Christian Midweek Podcast Series! We pray this will be an ongoing source of information, inspiration, fun and encouragement to all who join us! For more information, visit our links listed below. Give Website Facebook instagram Prayer Request Contact

Join Amy Nettleton & Asif Choudry for a #SOchat special at Housing 2022 Manchester where they discuss the exciting rebrand and launch of #SOchat and all things Shared Ownership with guests Sandy Macmillan, Ed Thomas, Jo Short, Laura Gaskell, Lisa Westerman, & Tim SewardThis is part 2 of a 2 part episode.www.sochat.co.ukConnect with the speakers on social media:Sandy MacmillanLinkedinEd ThomasTwitterLinkedinJo ShortTwitterLinkedinLaura GaskellLinkedinLisa WestermanTwitterLinkedinTim SewardTwitterLinkedin

eD! and Jeff discuss all the happenings at WWDC, beguiling TikTok videos, the horrors of exercise, and Bluetooth-enabled water bottles! Also they talk about where they've been for four months and, spoiler, it's none of your business, jackass. But, as an apology, here's a DALL·E image of a hamster making it rain, which should make things better for everyone:

So deeply entrenched in #CommsHero is our next guest, it is hard to believe that he isn't on the Resource payroll! Having held roles in business associations, renewable energy, and higher education, Ed Thomas is now in the housing sector, leading all communications and marketing strategy and campaigns at The Wrekin Housing Group, a social housing and care provider that drives social value and makes a difference to people's lives across Shropshire and Staffordshire. A storyteller, trust builder, reputation manager, communicator and marketer – he is also dyslexic. With ever increasing understanding of dyslexia, the traditional views are being dismissed. Dyslexic brains excel in critical thinking, emotional intelligence, creativity and communication, skills amongst the most in demand by employers for the 21st century workplace. In this episode Ed tells us about his journey with dyslexia and how he capitalises on his dyslexic superpowers. Cape optional, though he never leaves the house without his.Follow Ed on TwitterFollow Ed on LinkedInFollow CommsHero on Twitter  Fancy getting in the hot seat and sharing your CommsHero wisdom? Contact Asif Choudry You'll find this podcast on Spotify, Apple and on our websitewww.commshero.com. Please leave a rating and review. This episode is sponsored by Blink. The world's first enterprise app designed exclusively for frontline workers.

BONUS "Songs of the Earth - Show 13 (All Iroquois Social Dance)", featuring music by Cam Hill & Ed Thomas, Gordie Buck, and Art Johnson & Lyle Anderson.

eD! and Jeff stick to their new every-other-week schedule like the extremely dedicated heroes they are to discuss only the hottest topics of the day, even though that day was a few weeks ago! You want example topics? Put on some socks, 'cause we're about to knock your goofy ass outta 'em! The newest cast memeber for "Fast 10", and eD!'s dream casting for Vin Diesel's non-John Cena brother!Jeff's mind-altered snacking shenanigans!Spoilers for movies that are between 14 and 37 years old!Jeff's funeral plans!Shiny new toys!Memories of operating systems gone by!And apple juice, because we're not afraid to get controversial!

eD! and Jeff get back together like a sexy podcasting Voltron to discuss the horrors of feet, the glory of the "Weird Al" biopic, the ongoing nightmare that is the threat of COVID Dick, the heartbreak of heroes lost, the excitement of new sportsball heroes, and memories from decades gone by of a dude who should have been wearing a lot more on the beach! Also, no Dave this episode, so this is a perfect soundtrack for those sexytimes you might be hoping to have tonight, although this episode is longer than 15 seconds so it might not be the best idea you ever had, endurance-wise. Oh, yeah, we're going to be releasing these things every other week from now on, and we're already ahead of the game, prepared-episode-wise, so no more 27 year gaps between episodes, probably. And if you want to get those lightbulbs that eD! talks about, homies, we got you.

So here it is... Merry Maskmas. As England's new Covid rules start to take effect, the Daily Mirror's Pippa Crerar, who first broke the news about last year's Downing Street Christmas gatherings, brings us up to date on the controversy. Meanwhile, the BBC's Ed Thomas tells Adam about the impact of the pandemic on poverty and mental health in Burnley, where he has been following communities in some of the town's most deprived areas over the past year. And Brit Awards' Rising Star winner, Holly Humberstone, talks about becoming famous during lockdown and why she supports mask-wearing at her gigs. Today's Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.

Ed Thomas is a Missionary and TBS Alum (Mdiv). Ed will share how The Bible Seminary has impacted his life and ministry.Join TBS on Giving Tuesday visit TheBibleSeminary.edu/gtSupport the show (https://swp.paymentsgateway.net/co/default.aspx?pg_api_login_id=1OV15Ta2pl)

What if you had the power to draw down carbon levels with the click of a button? Would it ease your worries about the state of our planet and the impact of climate change? Climate anxiety is a growing phenomenon where individuals feel overwhelmed, unempowered, and guilty about immensity of the climate change problem. A new app by Hazel is empowering individuals to do their part by taking responsibility for their own carbon footprints. In this episode, we talk to Hazel's Founder Ed Thomas about his quest to calm climate anxiety by making it fun and easy to make a direct impact on the planet. The Hazel app helps users offset their everyday activities on both a per transaction and monthly subscription basis, providing flexibility for its community. Join us to learn more about what we as individuals can do when we feel helpless about the climate crisis. The Understory Podcast discusses innovation, insights, and the future of sustainability. It features innovators, industry experts, and diverse voices who make our world more sustainable. For more insights, please visit www.theunderstory.io.

eD! and Jeff talk about Thanksgiving food preferences, feelings on parades, weird eyebrows, eD!'s teeth, and all sorts of other crap! Listen to this instead of the crazed rantings of your uncle that's on Facebook too frequently, it'll be way better.

Join Scotty and Midwest Ultra Mainstay, Ninja Runner and all around cool guy Ed Thomas for a log run in which they discuss Ed's life in running, his path to ultra, his love of winter ultras, starting ultras later in life, and much much more!! This episode brought to you by our friends at UCAN!.  Try the new Gell flavor!!!  Get 20% off with the Code "Tenjunkmiles" here: www.ucan.co Website: http://www.tenjunkmiles.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenjunkmiles Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenjunkmiles Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenjunkmiles/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TenJunkMiles/

eD! and Jeff discuss all the happenings at the September Apple Event! And also Niki Minaj's cousin's balls. Yeah, it's a weird one. Episode Details "If You Listen Carefully, You can Hear Our Wallets Screaming in the Background" "If You Listen Carefully, You can Hear Our Wallets Screaming in the Background"

Bem Vindos ao Zero18 Podcast!!! Ed Thomas, é um radialista e político brasileiro, atual Prefeito da Cidade de Presidente Prudente. Filiado ao Partido Socialista Brasileiro.

eD! and Jeff discuss disgraced governors, how to piss off jackasses in a 7-Eleven parking lot, and eD! regales you with the saga of Super Hero, his favorite deli in the universe! Also, we spend like 15 minutes straight talking about a really good egg sandwich, so maybe you should have one of them before you listen to this episode, or else you'll be sitting there all, "Damn, I shoulda had that egg sandwich I was warned about, this sounds delicious" the whole time.

eD! and Jeff discuss eD!'s super-weird vacation, Jeff's achievement of hitting peak Dad-ness, podcast listening habits, stank-ass celebrities, respond to some listener email! You can listen to the episode where eD!'s eye was last a funky weirdo, Villain Meeting, here. You can also see the dope Zoom Freak 2 shoes eD!'s Dad got by clicking here. And you can take your shitty opinions on "Joker" right back with you to Hell, you bastards.

eD! and Jeff discuss the Feast of St. Rocco, new shows they're watching, how streaming has broken Jeff's poor brain, and the majesty of The Waffle House! By the way, we know it's taken a while for new episodes to come out, but if your podcast playing app ever shows you this shit? It's a lie. This podcast will be finished when either eD! and/or Jeff are DEAD (especially if eD! dies because Jeff doesn't know how to upload the episodes).

Dashing through the snow, in a one-shark open sleigh, past some pants we go, laughing all the way. (Ha-ha-ha.) Max and Peter sing, making spirits bright, and James and Nathan do their thing in Sardicktown tonight! Notes and links A Christmas Carol is the story where Michael Pickwoad takes over from Ed Thomas as Doctor Who's Production Designer. Here's an intervew with him from Doctor Who Magazine, which includes a photograph of the painting Max mentions, “The Birth of Sardicktown”. To help the UK get through the Christmas lockdown of 2010, Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill live-tweeted this episode at the hashtag #HalfwayOutOfTheDark. In this tweet, Steven Moffat describes Karen and Arthur's reaction to being sidelined in this episode, and in this tweet he mentions the line that he regrets cutting at the end of the episode. Follow us Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Max is @maxpj__. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll travel back in time and just be terribly nice to you when you're feeling sad. See, not much of a threat, is it? And more You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. In an unexpected development, yesterday we released a commentary on an episode of Batman starring Joan Collins. Which is a sentence that none of us ever expected to see in the shownotes.

Dashing through the snow, in a one-shark open sleigh, past some pants we go, laughing all the way. (Ha-ha-ha.) Max and Peter sing, making spirits bright, and James and Nathan do their thing in Sardicktown tonight! Notes and links A Christmas Carol is the story where Michael Pickwoad takes over from Ed Thomas as Doctor Who's Production Designer. Here's an intervew with him from Doctor Who Magazine, which includes a photograph of the painting Max mentions, “The Birth of Sardicktown”. To help the UK get through the Christmas lockdown of 2010, Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill live-tweeted this episode at the hashtag #HalfwayOutOfTheDark. In this tweet, Steven Moffat describes Karen and Arthur's reaction to being sidelined in this episode, and in this tweet he mentions the line that he regrets cutting at the end of the episode. Follow us Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Max is @maxpj__. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll travel back in time and just be terribly nice to you when you're feeling sad. See, not much of a threat, is it? And more You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. In an unexpected development, yesterday we released a commentary on an episode of Batman starring Joan Collins. Which is a sentence that none of us ever expected to see in the shownotes.

Dashing through the snow, in a one-shark open sleigh, past some pants we go, laughing all the way. (Ha-ha-ha.) Max and Peter sing, making spirits bright, and James and Nathan do their thing in Sardicktown tonight! Notes and links A Christmas Carol is the story where Michael Pickwoad takes over from Ed Thomas as Doctor Who's Production Designer. Here's an intervew with him from Doctor Who Magazine, which includes a photograph of the painting Max mentions, “The Birth of Sardicktown”. To help the UK get through the Christmas lockdown of 2010, Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill live-tweeted this episode at the hashtag #HalfwayOutOfTheDark. In this tweet, Steven Moffat describes Karen and Arthur's reaction to being sidelined in this episode, and in this tweet he mentions the line that he regrets cutting at the end of the episode. Follow us Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanbottomley, James is @ohjamessellwood and Max is @maxpj__. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FTEpodcast. We're also on Facebook, and you can check out our website at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll travel back in time and just be terribly nice to you when you're feeling sad. See, not much of a threat, is it? And more You can find Jodie into Terror, our flashcast on the Whittaker Era of Doctor Who, at jodieintoterror.com, at @JodieIntoTerror on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and wherever podcasts can be found. Our James Bond commentary podcast is called Bondfinger, and you can find that at bondfinger.com, at @bondfingercast on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else as well. In an unexpected development, yesterday we released a commentary on an episode of Batman starring Joan Collins. Which is a sentence that none of us ever expected to see in the shownotes.

eD! and Jeff discuss the new Apple MagSafe Battery Pack Thing, other portable battery packs, “Black Widow”, “Luca”, returning to movie theaters, and answer some reader mail!

eD! and Jeff discuss fitness goals, how much eD! loves his new iPads Pro, acceptance of comfort, and new drinks that eD! just found out about!

eD! and Jeff discuss stupid work cliches, Apple's lossless music plans, weird-ass dreams, and the return of the single greatest food mascot in the history of food mascots!

It's yet another wedding on Game of Thrones, and yet another shocking turn of events. After we spend some time watching Ramsay push Theon further down the black hole of psychological torment, and after we make brief stops beyond the Wall and at Dragonstone, it's time for Joffrey and Margaery's wedding. In the final episode written for the show by A Song of Ice and Fire novel series creator George R. R. Martin, it's the last ride for the awful boy king, who acts like a complete bastard before poison takes us from him forever. ED THOMAS: https://edwardthomasuk.bandcamp.com/

Inspired by the memory legendary high school coach, Ed Thomas of Parkersburg, Iowa, Matt and James discuss what it means to give away your 'playbook.'

Today's episode features Aaron Thomas, currently the head boys basketball coach at Aplington-Parkersburg. In today's episode, we discuss Coach Thomas's journey, helping run the leadership academy and his pressure zone defense. Below are some links and an outline for the show. IBCA Website: http://iowabca.com/press/ IBCA Membership Registration: http://iowabca.com/press/2020/08/29/ibca-membership-20-21/ Ed Thomas Leadership Academy: http://www.edthomasfamilyfoundation.org/leadership-academy/ Episode Outline 0:46 -- Coach Thomas's Journey 11:01 -- Ed Thomas Leadership Academy 17:46 -- Pressure Zone Defense

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